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A company that aims to make billions of dollars by cooling the Earth has lifted the veil of secrecy that until now has hidden its plans for preventing sunlight from overheating the planet. It hinges ...

A team of researchers based in Norway and Japan might soon have you walking on desert sand, no matter how far from the dunes you live. This group of engineers has developed a method to transform it ...

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The hourglass, one of mankind’s earliest forms of timekeeping, is at the forefront of a new, interactive display in the basement of the Engineering Center. But be warned—the team’s Logistics Manager ...

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A dust plume that has been traveling across the Atlantic may later spread as far as Texas and Georgia as a weather system breaks it apart. Dust Sources: Goddard Earth Observing System, NASA Note: Map ...

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The sandgroper is a kind of grasshopper that's seriously good at surviving in Australia’s harsh and arid sand-lands. The 14 species are collectively known by the rather descriptive scientific name, ...